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W7 Pro won't boot on it's own but will through Hiren's disc

Have a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Dell Vostro laptop - user claims he opened an email then his computer crashed. If you try to boot machine it gets to the dell screen with F2 and F12 options but when it goes to boot to Windows screen it restarts. I can boot to a Hiren's disc and select "boot from hard drive" and it will boot into Windows 7 that way. I need to fix this but don't know what to do. THanks in advance.

I did. That didn't work. But I did find a fix. I got to the command prompt through startup repair and entered these commands:

bootsect.exe /nt60 all

bootrec.exe/fixmbr

bootrec.exe/fixboot

And that seemed to fix what was wrong. I have rebooted into Windows successfully a few times already just to be sure it's still working. I believe there was some malware that messed up some boot records or files but it's working now.